In late March, 2026, Andy Kirby, the principal promoter of MeshCore attempted a coup and to turn this free and open-source project into his personal for-profit project.1 Although he was not part of the original development team, he developed the official website (meshcore.co.uk - no-longer the official site) and the MeshCore Discord. Kirby also applied to trademark the MeshCore name without informing the rest of the team. The team was unable to reconcile with Kirby and split off carry on the project with a new website and Discord. West Coast Mesh has chosen to follow the team to the new ecosystem. Since we are cooperationg with West Coas Mesh we will do the same.
As it now stands, this website follows the new ecosystem at the new official website: meshcore.io.2 I will be updating the repeaters in the coming week or so and we will get together to update our companion units soon. If you want to update your companion unit yourself, just erase and reflash at meshcore.io.
More information from blog.meshcore.io.
TMI from CoPilot AI: MeshCore-Split.
1 Scott Powell wrote the original codebase for MeshCore in late 2024. As such he is the legal owner of the software. Powell released the software under the MIT license.
2 The official software (meshcore.io) is no longer fully compatible with Kirby's fork (which we have been using).